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Apple's home button died on Wednesday at the age of 18, surrounded by family and friends (including its partner, Touch ID). The home button, which launched on the original iPhone and later spread to ...

Admittedly, I do not have the same kind of history with the iPhone’s Home button as lifelong iPhone owners. I was there for a moment with the iPod touch and then, briefly, the iPhone 4S. I went back ...

Long live the iPhone's Home Button. It began life on Apple's original iPhone in 2007. Its death started in November 2017, when the company announced its iPhone X, which used a full-size, top-to-bottom ...

Apple removed the physical Home button from its flagship iPhones years ago, but the core idea never really went away. Buried inside the Accessibility settings is a floating control that can behave ...

The physical home button is no more, but there's a workaround you can use on pretty much any iPhone. Apple announced the new iPhone 16E last week, replacing the iPhone SE and eliminating the home ...

Sometimes, it can be hard to believe that it has already been more than 15 years since the first iPhone was launched. At the time, it was a pioneering device that changed the game for smartphone ...

Apple plans to end support for the previous version of Apple Home on February 10, 2026, according to an updated support document published today. Apple previously said that the older architecture ...